MORE 'PUBLIC-LIBRARIES' POSTS
From the Arizona Republic: The question of whether libraries need armed security guards has caused a furor in Gilbert. The controversy began after the Maricopa County Library District, which operates Gilbert’s two libraries, reinstated security guards last month at the Southeast Regional Library. The decision to reinstate and arm the security guards followed complaints by […]
From the CBC: The City of Toronto is facing down a serious budget shortfall. And as city council looks for places to cut, councilor Doug Ford, the brother of Mayor Rob Ford, started counting library branches. Today we look at the debate over balancing the books by closing libraries. Read Transcript/Listen to the CBC’s Current […]
National Endowment for the Humanities Announces $40 Million in Grants, Libraries are Among the Recipients
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, News, Preservation, Public Libraries
|This is a follow-up to a post from last week about funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for start-up projects and institutes. Today, a list of ALL of 249 projects (in several categories) receiving funding from NEH during this funding cycle. A number of libraries are listed as well as many digitization projects […]
From cnews/Canoe.ca: Politicians across Canada may want to close the book on pulling public funding for libraries. A new Leger marketing survey released exclusively to QMI Agency found an overwhelming majority of Canadians want their libraries kept publicly funded. While libraries ranked at the top of services Canadians want publicly funded, zoos ranked at the […]
The always interesting and informative Colorado Library Research Service blog lets us knows us that the IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) released files with data from the 2009 Public Libraries Survey (PLS) at the end of last week. The new data along with data files back to 1992 can be accessed here. From […]
Montreal: "Jewish Public Library Turns a Page"
Awards, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries
|From the Montreal Gazette: The [Jewish Public] Library has been many things to many people since Yiddish-speaking immigrants founded it 97 years ago as a place to learn, to read and borrow books, gather to discuss them and meet their authors. Along the way it has grown considerably, developed a thriving children’s library, assumed an […]
Archives: "University of Illinois at Chicago Plans Internet Portal to 14 Chicago Institutions"
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|From a UIC News Release: The University of Illinois at Chicago Library is leading a project to plan a portal to the historical collections of 14 museums, universities and libraries that make up the Chicago Collections Consortium. The portal will offer a one-click search of the special collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the […]
WebJunction has made an archived recording, slides, and a chat log available for their, “Information Cartographer: Social Media Librarians of the Future” webinar that was recorded on June 20, 2011. The program runs one hour. The archived material is available at no charge (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License). Presenters: Stephanie Bents, Digital Services […]
The five alert services (all free) discussed are: 1. Track New Book 2. Book Buzz 3. Any New Books 4. Author Alerts 5. Wowbrary A service many of you are probably familiar with. Wowbrary alerts users to new books at numerous public libraries around the U.S. Like many services on the WWW, the four mentioned […]
Q&A Interview With Harvard University Librarian, Dr. Robert Darnton, About National Digital Public Library
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Public Libraries
|Here’s are three questions and answers from the complete interview that appears in the July 24, 2011 edition of the Boston Globe: IDEAS: So why not leave it to Google? DARNTON: It became clear, as Google’s project evolved, that it would be a commercial enterprise, and in fact an enterprise attached to a gigantic monopoly. […]